The Chavez Way

Via J-Ger, Here's what Hunt Downer, the Republican candidate in Louisiana's Third Congressional District, had to say recently about Barack Obama's non-handling of Armus:

The President has spent so much time studying that he forgot how to make things happen. His approach has all the hallmarks of a disengaged White House, more eager to find a simplistic political sound bite than develop a comprehensive response to the disaster. Today, the White House was quoted by the Hill as defending the President’s golfing habits by saying it is done to “clear his mind.” If the defense of the President spending so much time on golf instead of in the Gulf is to clear his mind . . . then the President’s mind must be as empty as his promises to our people.

When Governor Jindal led from the front, proposing a coastline reconstruction plan, the President called for a study, allowing oil to reach our shores. When we cried out for sand berms, the President pulled out the red tape, hoping the disaster would just go away. When business leaders cried out for a recovery plan, the President slapped a moratorium on drilling that will destroy our local economy. This isn’t the politics of Hope and Change; it’s the politics of despair and destruction.

Ooohh, pretty tough, huh?  But then that's just typical seditious, racist, blasphemous, NeoNazi wingnut boilerplate, right?

Here are the recent comments of Ravi Sangisetty, Downer's Donk opponent, on the same subject:

Ravi Sangisetty, Democratic candidate for U.S. Congress in the Louisiana Third District, said the federal government has issued a death sentence to South Louisiana’s economy.

“Last night the President went on TV and said, ‘If something isn’t working, we want to hear about it,’” Sangisetty said. “Well, because of the federal government and BP, the list of things that aren’t working is pretty long. The federal government’s moratorium means the oil rigs aren’t working; failure to regulate BP means now the Gulf is full of oil; the oil means the fishermen aren’t working; that means our restaurants and tourism industries aren’t working. Mr. President, the federal government stopped South Louisiana from working.”

Sangisetty said that safety must be ensured on the deepwater rigs in a matter of days, not months. He also said that domestic oil is key to our national economy and security.

“The President chastised America for sending a billion dollars a day to foreign countries for their oil,” Sangisetty said. “Domestic oil is a perfect way to counter that, however our ability to drill our own oil has been crippled because Washington is broken. We have a serious problem down here. We need a solution for coastal economy that puts South Louisiana back to work now.”

Oh, don't get me wrong, if Sangisetty got elected (which he won't) the Pelosi Politburo would skull-bleep him into voting with San Fran Nan 98% of the time.  But take a moment and marvel at what Democrats in the Gulf States are having to say in order to have a wing and a prayer of even being competitive in November.

Why, it almost makes them sound as delightfully bellicose as the lovely and gracious Michelle Malkin, who graced Sean Hannity's FoxNews program by (regrettably just figuratively) repeatedly slamming Ken "Jackboot" Salazar's ballsack in a cast iron drawer:

Yes, Ed, Salazar works at the pleasure of the POTUS, which means the ex-Colorado Senator and one-time drilling proponent is simply carrying out the Li'l President's orders so he can focus on really important tasks like ironing the shank out of his seven iron.  Yes, Ed, it should be Barry's ballsack in Double-M's cast iron drawer getting symbolically smashed flatter than Rocky Mountain oysters.  The "why" doubles as the retort to Ed's exit quote:

[Obama] still owes the US an explanation as to why he defied his own self-selected experts in imposing that damaging [drilling ban] policy.

Go here for your $64 answer.  A bargain indeed, even in this economy.  Meanwhile, we can turn our attention ahead to two more of Barry O's energy endgames.

Think he might be a tad miffed over his good, close, personal friend Hugo's letting this cat out of the bag?:

Venezuela will nationalize a fleet of oil rigs belonging to U.S. company Helmerich and Payne, the latest takeover in a push to socialism as President Hugo Chavez struggles with lower oil output and a recession.

A former soldier inspired by Cuba's Fidel Castro, Chavez has made energy nationalization the linchpin in his 'revolution'. He has also taken over assets in telecommunications, power, steel and banking.

The 11 drilling rigs have been idled for months following a dispute over pending payments by the OPEC member's state oil company PDVSA.  Oil Minister Rafael Ramirez said on Wednesday the rigs, the Oklahoma-based company's entire Venezuelan fleet, were being nationalized to bring them back into production.

Ramirez said companies that refused to put their rigs into production were part of a plan to weaken Chavez's government....

Chavez, who faces legislative elections in September, often pushes ahead with radical plans during election campaigns.

The 55-year-old leader is having a hard time in his 11th year in power.  Venezuela's economy is the worst performing in Latin America this year, a problem exacerbated by a drop in oil output since 2008, power outages and soaring inflation.

Does this quote even need further comment?  Other than that it'll take Red Barry considerably less than eleven years to get America to that point.

Makes me wonder how soon it'll take The One's cripple & tax frustrations to rise to the level where he'll have Organizing For America get to work on "energy policy strategy" like this:

Spain’s Dr. Gabriel Calzada — the author of a damning study concluding that Spain’s “green jobs” energy program has been a catastrophic economic failure — was mailed a dismantled bomb on Tuesday by solar energy company Thermotechnic.

Says Calzada:

Before opening it, I called [Thermotechnic] to know what was inside … they answered, it was their answer to my energy pieces.

Dr. Calzada contacted a terrorism expert to handle the package. The expert first performed a scan of the package, then opened it in front of a journalist, Dr. Calzada, and a private security expert.

The terrorism consultant said he had seen this before:

This time you receive unconnected pieces. Next time it can explode in your hands.

Dr. Calzada added:

[The terrorism expert] told me that this was a warning.

Not that False Messiah would NEED to initiate more "direct" modes of "persuasion" himself, y'understand.  He still doubtless has plenty of cultish volunteers who'd be happy to give a Gaia-blasphemer's life as a human sacrifice to Godbama's greenish Obamatopia.  Just ask Jack Baer.

Either way, given the blind, extreme, leftwingnut zealotry of these storm trooper thugs and their "dangerously authoritarian" leader, the distance from "YES WE CAN!" to "WHADDAYA MEAN WE CAN'T!" to "BLEEP YOU!" to "YOU WILL DIE!" is probably a lot shorter than any of us want to acknowledge.

If I were Chris Horner, I'd have somebody else opening my mail, just to be on the safe side.